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["Joel Pitt" <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Joel Pitt <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another question with the locking. What happens when:
>
> 1. Agent one has an lvector containing atoms [A, B]
> 1. Agent two has an lvector containing atoms [C, D]
>
> Agent one requests a lock on atom C, so it waits for Agent two to
> release it. But then Agent two requests a lock on atom A. Would this
> be a race condition? Or is this situation avoided by having the
> AtomTable lock?

Sorry, that should have been "Would this be a deadlock?" - getting my
terminology mixed up!

J